"I loved this story. Three generations of women finding their way. And new beginnings. I can’t wait to read Jewel’s story." Unwilling to face life as a teenage mother, eighteen-year-old Penny Azevedo leaps at the chance to move to Portugal; she leaves behind her childish nickname and her three-year-old daughter, Jewel. As Pauline, she builds an exciting new life in Coimbra that includes a complicated relationship with a guitar player and a unique way of repaying her mentor's generosity. Jewel is growing up under the loving but not-so-watchful eye of her grandmother. On the surface, Jewel is the quintessential good girl who loves art and animals, but by age fifteen she has a secret life that includes drinking, drugs and stealing Gram's VW van. A terrifying accident forces Pauline to face the life she left behind. She must decide whether to go back to California and attempt to reconnect with her mother and daughter, or remain in Portugal, the life she loves. Feeling abandoned and resentful, Jewel questions whether she wants a relationship with her mother at all. Across sixteen years and two continents, three generations learn to accept mother/daughter relationships on their own terms. But will any of them learn to forgive? Can't get enough of the Azevedo women? Read the sequel "An Artist's Heart".
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